- Remote, United States
- Remote
- Full-time · Senior
- 8+ years
Administer Progress OpenEdge databases across development, test, and production environments, ensuring availability, performance, data integrity, and recoverability.
Compensation
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Responsibilities
- Administer Progress OpenEdge databases across development, test, and production environments, including installation, configuration, maintenance, startup/shutdown parameters, and broker configurations.
- Monitor database health and availability using promon and related diagnostic tools, responding to incidents involving performance, connectivity, or production availability.
- Design and execute backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies using probkup, prorest, After-Image areas, and documented recovery procedures.
- Tune and optimize database performance, including buffer pools, lock tables, I/O, index rebuilds/compaction, fragmentation reduction, blocking, deadlocks, and slow-running queries.
- Manage database structures and schema support activities, including storage areas, extents, .st files, dump/load operations, triggers, data model changes, and collaboration with development teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Nice to have: OpenEdge Replication